CCC#69
Welcome to my weekly challenge—open to all—just for FUN, FUN, FUN
Here’s how it works:
Every Wednesday I post a photo (this week it’s that one above.)
You respond with something CREATIVE
Here are some suggestions:
- An answering photo
- A cartoon
- A joke
- A caption
- An anecdote
- A short story (flash fiction)
- A poem
- A newly minted proverb, adage or saying
- An essay
- A song—the lyrics or the performance
You have plenty of scope and only two criteria:
- Your creative offering is indeed yours
- Your writing is kept to 150 words or less
If you post a link in the comments section of this post I’ll be able to find it
If you include Crimson’s Creative Challenge as a heading, WP Search will find it (theory)
by ‘Searching’ in the WP Reader (fingers crossed)
Here’s wishing you inspirational explosions. And FUN.
crispina kemp 
Whilst trolling for garden gnomes….
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I figured the photo might lead to some fun 🙂
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This does look like fun!
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Hoping so… 🙂
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This was fun to write 🙂
http://susansplace.blog/2020/03/04/grouchy-greta-gnome/
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Fun to read too. Now waiting for Part 2 🙂
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🙂 You’ll be the first to know when I write it ❤
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Ah-ha 🙂
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her we go: https://castorpblog.wordpress.com/2020/03/04/crimsons-creative-challenge-69/
not too funny I am afraid
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Yet your take on the prompt is definitly amusing
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I am very glad, I am divided by my opninion on gnomes, I find them so naff, that they are almost cool
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I certainly would not buy one. These, I believe, had been made in a craft class. Which is why I was surprised when they were left behind. And why I look at them, and look at the bin, and just can’t bring myself to tip them in. Somebody else’s creative energy. Doesn’t seem right.
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I fully understand you, I couldn’t either, they look sort of cute
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And I admit to enjoying the gnome movies (Gnomio and Juliet, and Sherlock Gnomes)
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That’s a good tip. I will look on Amazon movies for it👍
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The first movie I found on YouTube
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The race of gnomes (Homo gnomo) has left behind few traces of their culture. Statues are sometimes found in what appear to be derelict gardens. Their meaning and function is unclear. Were they representations of gnomic heroes, leaders of their race? Perhaps they were meant to represent horrible creatures feared by the gnomes. Or they could even have been representation of the gnomic gods, although it speaks poorly of the gnomes that they should have such unprepossessing gods.
The controversial Gnu-Gnome-Gnomon Theory, first put forward by Conan Yeats, that the gnomes were actually a hybrid species, and that the gnome “statues” are actually a breed of gnomes who favor their gnomon ancestry, was so widely ridiculed that Yeats transformed into a hippogriff and flew away. Subsequent research suggests that Yeats may in fact have been right, since their shadows can be used to measure time.
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A highly erudite article Mr Bixby, impressive in the extent of research… as we’ve come to expect from you. We thank you for your contribution.
🙂 🙂 🙂
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I’ve tried to speak to Conan Yeats, to explain how his reputation has been rehabilitated, but, like all previous attempts to contact that disappointed and vengeful scholar, I required hospitalization afterwards. Fortunately, in my case, all I sustained were lacerations.
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So glad to know, not fully debilitated. I understand a previous hopeful contactee was hospitalised for six full months while the surgeons removed the shards of glass, one sliver by one sliver.
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I’m glad I did not know about that one. My brother once had his finger cut open by broken glass, and ever since, the idea of being violated by glass fills me with horror, which at least is much better than being filled with silica.
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Filled with silica and stored in a furnace and… oh, the horrors that does conjure…
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😉
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Hi Crispina, my thought:
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And I did like…
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Here’s my one: https://jedigirlblog.wordpress.com/2020/03/06/ccc69-the-mistake-poem/
I went over the limit sorry.
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I simply love it, to heck with the limit.
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Originally it was going to be a story, but it worked better as a poem.
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Has that *fairy tale* kind of feel to it
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I thought it only fitting to embrace your challenge #69 in a round-about kind of way….
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I’d say you did certainly embrace it! 🙂 🙂 🙂
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But OF COURSE I had to enter something about this photo!! 🙂
Na’ama
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And brilliantly done 🙂
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Thank you! 😊
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🙂
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